Roberta Marvin

Chair

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Edward Arron

Cello Studio

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Cobus du Toit

Flute Studio

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Romie de Guise-Langlois

Clarinet Studio

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Lisa Lehmberg’s book Music For Life was recently published by Oxford University Press.  With co-author C. Victor Fung, she focused on music participation and senior citizens’ quality of life.  The book concludes with a challenge for music educators: act on the latest research to enable people of all ages to benefit from music, a substantial contributor to quality of life.  More information/purchase at the Oxford website.

The Felipe Salles Group received a grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures for the performance of Salles' Ugandan Suite with workshops and master classes on the influence of African music on jazz and Brazilian music.

The Springfield Symphony, with UMass Professors Nadine Shank, Salvatore Macchia, and Michael Sussman, and alumni Romina Kostare and Bruce Diehl, performed at the New England Patriots pregame ceremonies to celebrate the team's fourth Super Bowl championship.

After submitting recordings for evaluation, the UMass Wind Ensemble, Matthew Westgate, conductor, received an invitation to perform at the 2016 College Band Directors National Association Eastern Division Conference in New London, CT in March.
The Ensemble's Dream Music program will include Timothy Todd Anderson, guest conductor, leading Key/Sousa's Star Spangled Banner, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, saxophone soloist in Biedenbender's Dreams in the Dusk, Frank Ticheli's Rest, and works by Mendelssohn and Schmitt. The Ensemble also performs Dream Music at the UMass Fine Arts Center Concert Hall on March 4 at 7:30pm, and at Foxboro (MA) High School, where it will lead clinics and masterclasses.

Prof. Matthew Westgate

Scalene Scene by Michael Caudill '14, MM'17 was a winner in the Composition Competition, 360° Jazz Initiative, sponsored by the Music Department of the Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill. Caudill, lead tenor sax; Lucas Apostoleris '15, drums; and Christian Tremblay MM'17, piano were selected for the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Jazz Orchestra (Cumberland, MD), the premier collegiate all-star band on the East coast. In January, the Band played at Lincoln Center in NYC.

Caudill, Sean Jones (Jazz Orchestra's conductor), Apostoleris & Tremblay in Cumberland, MD